$30 reg for Gateway 2009 Games Ends Tomorrow!

$30 special price for LA Games members lasts through June 30 only-- After that, $35!

GATEWAY 2009
Labor Day Weekend
September 4th-7th

GATEWAY returns to the LAX Radisson for Labor Day Weekend (Friday September 4th through Monday 7th) where you can play 400 different events and win $4000 in prizes!

Join 1000 gamers for a holiday weekend full of board games, card games, miniature
war games and video game tournaments! Play your favorite traditional games and Euro games, historical, collectible, strategy and family games. Gateway also hosts LARPs, painting contests, kid's events, war college seminars, really bad movie night and roleplaying games.

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS THIS MONTH - HURRY!!!
This coming Tuesday June 30th is the last chance to pre-register for Gateway at the
super low price of $35. That's the 1989 badge
price! Take advantage of this terrific offer by registering at www.strategicon.net
right now!

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It's All About the Games! (isn't it?) Bring your favorites to play, or play some of ours! Friday Games: 5 pm until 11 pm. (most come at 7pm) Sunday Games: 2 pm until 10 pm (closing).

Parking. Parking is available in the back lot. Most spaces are okay after 7 pm, when stores owning them have closed. But use at your own risk ... Gates close soon after 11 pm, so don't leave your car there after the cafe closes! Update: Be aware that street parking meters have changed to $1.00/hour with a 2 hour max, and are now active until 8:00pm Monday thru Saturday (even though the signs have yet to be updated)!

Sabor y Cultura Cafe

Join the LA Games Guild on Board Game Geek!

1960 25 Words or Less Acquire Apples to Apples Age of Mythology: The BoardGame Age of Steam Agricola Aladdin's Dragons Alhambra Amyistis Amun Re Arkham Horror Aquaretto Blokus Boggle Bootleggers Brass Canoe Caylus Carcassone Cartagena Container Cosmic Wimpout Cuba Die Macher Diplomacy El Capitan El Grande Elfenland Fearsome Floors Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage Hey! That's My Fish Hive Hollywood Blockbuster Imperial Ingenious Kremlin Last Night On Earth Manila Metropolys Mr. Jack Modern Art Montgolfiere New York Chase On The Underground Patrician

Pillars of the Earth, The Power Grid (You name the expansion, we've probably played it!) Primordial Soup Princes of Florence Puerto Rico Ra Rummikub Samurai Scotland Yard Sequence Simply Catan Settlers of Catan Shogun Small World Stone Age St. Petersburg Sunken City Talisman Terakh Thebes Therapy Ticket To Ride Ticket To Ride: The Card Game Ticket To Ride: Europe Ticket To Ride: Marklin Ticket To Ride: Switzerland Tigris & Euphrates Timber Tom Through The Desert Thurn & Taxis Thurn & Taxis: Power & Glory Traders of Genoa, The Torres Tsuro Transamerica TransEuropa Union Pacific Vegas Showdown Wasabi! Winner's Circle Wise and Otherwise YINSH Yspahan Zendo Zooloretto

Attribute Bang! Bohnanza Chinese Chicken Chrononauts Citadels Dominion Double Sheep's Head (aka Doppelkopf) Felix the Cat in the Sack For Sale Fluxx Gloom Guillotine Hearts Killer Bunnies and The Quest for the Magic Carrot

Lost Cities Mille Bornes No Thanks Phase 10 Pinochle Quiddler Race for the Galaxy San Juan Set Slide 5 Sleuth Spades Target Tichu

Antike
Attika
Cosmic Encounter
Galaxy Trucker
Goa
In The Year of the Dragon
Le Havre
Mr. Jack Expansions
Notre Dame
Railroad Tycoon
Sylla
Taj Mahal
Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
Ys (2nd Edition? or 1st)


(any requests?)

Articles
Germany has a grip on the business of inventing brainy new board-games

Podcasts
Board Game Babylon -- focuses on "designer games."

Conventions & Events
Gamex 2009
May 22 - May 25, 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend)
At the LAX Sheraton
Note: LA Games members are eligible for a pre-registration discount! -- $5 off the preregistration price of $40. Register and reserver your hotel room now!

Past
Euroquest 2007

Online Play
Brett Spiel Welt (Board Game World in German...aka BSW) - Cool European games site where you can try out new games online before you buy. **** [Ben's note: click the British flag to translate to English....you can also change the .de to .info for an English translated page courtesy of TheBoomer, a BSW member]

Other Gaming Groups
(for those who need more than their Friday night fix)
SoCalgamers-monthly or so
Westside Gamers-weekly (Thursdays and some weekend events)
Pasadena Board Games Meetup-monthly or so (meets at Game Empire)
SF Games When you're in San Francisco, check out SF Games. They meet Friday nights, 7 pm, at Muddy's at 24th & Valencia.

Game Info and Reviews
Board Game Geek
Join our Guild on Board Game Geek!
Board Game Central

Game Stores (online and brick/mortar)
Board Game Search-great little site where you can comparison shop for the best price at all best online stores ALL IN ONE PLACE...simply type in the name of the board game you want to check and click the different buttons.
BoardGamePrices.com-another, newer price comparison site
Fun Again
Tanga
Game of The Day- a blog spot where games can be found cheap!!!(Courtesy of Rusty)
Emerald Knights - (NEW)
4116 W. Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505
Thought Hammer
Game Empire, Pasadena - nice local place to play games and buy games
Knightware Inc -
3709 Cahuenga Blvd in Studio City (near Miceli's)
Also has open gaming on Saturdays from 2pm-10pm.
Aero Hobbies-a game store located on the Westside
The Last Grenadier in Burbank
820 N. Hollywood Way (just South of Magnolia)
Hours: M-Th 11:30-7; Fri 11:30-9; Sa 11-7; Su 11-6
Gameology
994 Foothill Blvd. in Claremont, California.